Bug 584397 - Review Request: hivex - Read and write Windows Registry binary hive files
Summary: Review Request: hivex - Read and write Windows Registry binary hive files
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: Package Review
Version: 5.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: rc
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Blocks: 188271 584364
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Reported: 2010-04-21 14:12 UTC by Richard W.M. Jones
Modified: 2016-04-26 15:08 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-08-08 11:07:54 UTC
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2010-04-21 14:12:02 UTC
Spec URL: http://94.30.104.162/rhel-5-rhev/hivex.spec
SRPM URL: http://94.30.104.162/rhel-5-rhev/hivex-1.2.1-1.el5rhev.1.src.rpm
Description:

Hive files are the undocumented binary blobs that Windows uses to
store the Windows Registry on disk.  Hivex is a library that can read
and write to these files.

'hivexsh' is a shell you can use to interactively navigate a hive
binary file.

'hivexregedit' lets you export and merge to the textual regedit
format.

'hivexml' can be used to convert a hive file to a more useful XML
format.

In order to get access to the hive files themselves, you can copy them
from a Windows machine.  They are usually found in
%systemroot%\system32\config.  For virtual machines we recommend
using libguestfs or guestfish to copy out these files.  libguestfs
also provides a useful high-level tool called 'virt-win-reg' (based on
hivex technology) which can be used to query specific registry keys in
an existing Windows VM.

For Perl bindings, see 'perl-hivex'.


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